I bought a few used planes on eBay a few month ago and the block plane restore was the first one to tackle. All these plane bodys and irons was very rusted and pitted when I received them. I posted an article Hand Plane Restoration on this.
Stuff I used for the restoration:
Wire Brush
Sand Paper
Wire brush wheel for grinder
WD-40
Black Spry Paint – Rust-oleum
Sharpening Stone
I blew all the loose peaches and rust dust of with some compressed air. Then I proceeded...

By Joshua Farnsworth (Writer at WoodAndShop.com)
I’m excited to share a quick video tutorial about how to cut rabbet joints by hand, with a few simple hand tools. This method focuses on cutting rabbets along the grain, which is especially useful for cutting moldings (first step in using hollows & rounds molding planes), picture frames, etc.
Go to this original blog entry (here) for some links to the tools that I used in this tutorial (you can use variations):-Marking gauge (I...

This is one of the first woodworking tools I ever owned.
According to Patrick Leach of Patrick’s Blood and Gore Stanley plane pages, on the one hand “The plane is a must-have for woodworkers,” while on the other hand, you should, “Definitely stay away from the maroon colored block planes; Stanley must have hired some Greenwich Village arteest to come up with this hideous color.”
Personally, I LOVE it. Mostly because it’s one of the few woodworking tools that my Dad owned. I think he...

An interesting series of block planes in which the base, and often other components are made of steel – formed using a combination of stamping press and punch press. They were touted as “indestructible”.
http://workingbyhand.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/the-block-planes-of-superheroes-part-1/

Another weird aluminum block plane from my collection – “The BOSTON”. I know of three planes in this series, but next to nothing about the manufacturer.
http://workingbyhand.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/another-weirder-aluminum-plane-the-boston/

Aluminum block planes are some of the strangest of planes around. They appeared for a brief period during the wars, and maybe again in the 1950s. Two of the strangest are the UTIL and The BOSTON – from unknown companies.
http://workingbyhand.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/a-weird-aluminum-plane/

So when I started down this hand plane road I will admit I did not have any idea what I was doing. I purchased hand planes on E Bay with the opinion that I could figure it out as I go, kinda a shot gun approach if you will. This resulted in some purchased that I fell in love with such as a 5 1/4 bench plane that honestly at this point is used more as a smooth plane than a fore plane. I also though bought a block plane well a few, okay, okay I bought like five but they were all different quali...

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Continuing work on the Telrad base was easy—-cloudy nights=busy days.
I added a wedge to the front of the Telrad base to make it more secure when attached, shaped the whole thing and made some nice edges. I think this is just going to be an experiment in getting it done—-if I like how it handles in the field, I may make it out of oak or something more stable and solid than pine (this was all pieces of 2×4 cutoff).
I h...

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Note: This was supposed to have been posted Saturday the 25th…
I wasn’t sure how much time I’d have today to work on the bench so instead of charging ahead with measuring the height of the legs to get ready for installing the top, I decided to do some more mundane tasks. They still are in general preparation for the top, but I just wasn’t planning on doing them first.
Before I get going though, I had mentioned yestrday...